Practice Perspectives: A Brief History of How and Why the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Developed Its Diversified Model of Service Delivery (Online)

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In the early 1980s, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) began to make a series of strategic decisions to spread its resources and expertise beyond its campus to serve the entire state. TSBVI currently devotes approximately 30% of its budget to a wide variety of outreach programs and services designed to help all Texas schools ensure that their students with visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) are receiving appropriate educations in both the core and the expanded core curricula. This report is intended to describe how and why this diversified service delivery model evolved, what it looks like in practice, and what the school envisions for the future.